There is a method behind Amazon's latest stunt to upgrade its image, and that is the company's army of paid employees who are flooding social media with tweets full-time about how satisfied they were at their jobs.

When a world where parents must endure background checks to gain employment should we allow background checks for welfare applicants. If one cannot gain employment or feed their family what will happen next?

Atlanta -
Food stamps usage in the U.S. has been going steadily up since 2008. With so many Americans out of work and in some cases losing their homes, the family pet has become the next heartbreaking sacrifice.

Washington -
In the month of August, there were an additional 420,863 recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. In each month since October 2008, there has been an increase of participation.

Warner Robins -
Cindy Nerger of Warner Robins, Ga., who has been on a waiting list for kidney transplant for five years, was brought to tears at a supermarket last week when a clerk ridiculed her in the presence of other customers for using food stamps.

Tampa -
While politicians talk of an economic recovery, the use of Food Stamps in the Tampa Bay area has reached a new high, with about a half million people taking advantage of federal food compensations as of July, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

An Illinois woman Ebony Martin, 34, who set up a false state file for her boyfriend, Keith Jones, 38, with social security numbers of non-existent triplets so that he could receive more government food assistance, was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail.

Washington -
In an interview on CBS's Friday "The Early Show," GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, accused the national media of misrepresenting his comment about the NAACP, blacks and food stamps. Gingrich said, "You guys have distorted what I said."

Laredo -
In San Antonio, Texas, a seven-hour stand-off ended with a 38-year-old mother killing herself, critically shooting her two children in the process. Since last July, she had been refused food stamps because of a "lack of sufficient" information.

In the United States almost 15 percent of the population used food stamps during the month of May. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had 45.8 million users for an all time high in May.

Macon -
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called President Obama the country's "most successful food stamp president" in its history and said the 2012 election will be the biggest since 1860, when the Lincoln and Civil War era began its scar on the country.

Food could soon hold a greater value than gold to many people with rising prices, civil unrest and food products such as corn being converted into fuel. Americans may soon understand what other countries such as Egypt already know.

As the recession has deepened, more and more Americans have trouble making ends meet. Some of them can’t even buy food much anymore and rely on public assistance. In fact news reports declare one in nine Americans are on food stamps.

Congress is about to bailout an unlikely group, the American taxpayer. By increasing the funding for food stamps the United States will be giving to those who generally pocket other bail outs. It's about time.

The rise in food prices is hitting everyone hard, but the hardest hit are those who have the least amount of money. American citizens on Food Stamps are finding that even the government assistance is helping very little.